Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. No matter the platform, your best bet for moving supporters to take action is to tell a compelling story.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

From publishing the first-ever global research report on disabilities among refugees to playing a significant part in the passage of two critical UN Security Council Resolutions, WRC has long been a pivotal player in humanitarian action. Stories from the Field | Twitter | Facebook. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. AIDS United.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years to mark its anniversary. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. The Vilcek Foundation. Excellence – Website for Art. The Frist Art Museum.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories from the last 50 years. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. The Vilcek Foundation. Canopus – Website for Art. Centauri – Website for Health.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These global leaders are coming from the United Kingdom, Uganda, Florida, and DC. Don't worry, there are NetSquared groups in 75 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Seattle, Washington.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. I’m Determined. Silver – Education for Websites.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Majora’s life journey is an inspiring story. SB] 2 offers programs in technology, engineering, design and entrepreneurship to local youth, and supports local, early-stage companies. [SB] open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We are offering a Dell Latitude 10 tablet refurbished by our friends at CDI to the best “ Digital Connector ” story lead. Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. Enter your story by 5:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Eligibility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

On International Human Rights Day, we pay tribute to all human rights defenders, celebrate the recent victories of the human rights community, and recognize the challenges that still lie ahead in the global struggle to advance justice, accountability and an end to impunity. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Governance and managing across difference in power and capacity in network participants / members. In the evening on April 5th from 6-7 PM PST, I’ll facilitate an evening conversation about inspirational stories of the power of networks. TechSoup Global Summit: Notes from Plenary Session. Story of Stuff.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Sponsored by TechSoup Global (“ Sponsor ”), 435 Brannan St.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

In many ways, however, the KONY2012 episode is an old story about the power of social capital and strong narratives. Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. What might those basic building blocks be for our sector?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

We want your stories about how products or educational resources from TechSoup.org have helped your organization stay secure and have helped you do the amazing work you do. The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Want to see what a great story looks like? Check out the example below!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2017

And while education and financial independence are critical steps to empowerment, they are merely two pieces of a much bigger and far more complicated story. We can confidentially provide contact information for local or national helplines that offer supportive and legal services. Recent research in the U.S., We can notice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

As I noted in the previous post, it's a major part of UK and Scottish government strategy to invest in and expand the social enterprise sector. In the opening session of the conference itself, we heard from representatives of both the UK and Scottish governments. A bit of government here can go a long way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

We have a global economic meltdown. And we have this thing called the global climate crisis. Charity, business, and government, all accomplish great things but have their limitations. And lastly, government. We know that government is rightly tackling many problems for our common good. We’ve got a lot of problems.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Perhaps politics has played a role and you need to develop a plan that doesn’t involve government funding. Jarrett started The Rayvan Group in 2009 and brings more than 15 years’ experience with international, national and local organizations, including Girls Golf of Phoenix, Habitat for Humanity, the Paraiso Project and St.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. Cleveland, Ohio: Sharing Your Story — How to Run an Effective Multi-channel Campaign. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

These surveys—more than 75 to date—all help tell the story of the pandemic’s continued impact on the sector, including how needs and responses have changed and what funders and nonprofits expect moving forward. billion in global COVID-19 giving by grantmakers and wealthy donors in 2020.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. disaster).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Thursday, February 9, 2017.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The staff at TechSoup Global is keeping all those affected by the devastating hurricane in our thoughts as we work to support recovery efforts. Government agencies, such as FEMA , also used Twitter to get the word out about the storm starting a week before it hit. The Red Cross hurricane app uses GPS to find the nearest shelters.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

For more: Messages, Stories, and Conversations: Creating a Strategy for your organization and your supporters. There are many different examples out there, ranging from small organization fundraising locally to organizations leveraging the global community for change. 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

SAP , a TechSoup Global donor partner and a leader in enterprise software applications partnered with the UNFPA to unveil two interactive population dashboards to mark the milestone. It took until year 1800 for global population to reach 1 billion. Understanding the Human Stories to Take Action. billion by mid-century.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? NetSquared groups held 23 Storymakers events, helping local nonprofits use video strategically. We're a global movement with chapters in 24 countries. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Well, there are!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. It really begged to be written, all these great stories, and there are hundreds more all over the country.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

But while global experts search for solutions to bridge the worsening digital divide for women, it turns out the answers are at our fingertips. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward. They warn us that we cannot ignore the horrifying stories that reveal the dark side of technology.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I found out about how big a deal Glasspockets is when I attended a local Foundation Technology Affinity Group (TAG) meeting of Northern California foundation techies who kept talking about Glasspockets projects like the hGrant Online Reporting Project , and the Transparency Talk blog. ” by TechSoup Global’s Kyle Reis.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Building local chapters. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller. Diverse Goals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's answer to providing local tech support and learning opportunities. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven global network of nonprofit technology workshops and networking events. Here's Robert's story, in his own words. What Is NetSquared? A Passion for Rural Development.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2021

But for some, it’s taken a global pandemic to see that truth reflected in daily reality. On a global scale, we see unequal access to vaccines. On a global scale, we see unequal access to vaccines. At a local level, we see health inequities that exist across provinces, states, counties, and even neighborhoods.

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